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Java

Posted by Kortney Field
Kortney Field
14,091 Points

error: incompatible types: String cannot be converted to char. Not sure what to do. I followed the video.

import java.util.Scanner;

class Prompter { private Game game;

public Prompter (Game game) { this.game = game; }

public boolean promptForGuess() { Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); boolean isHit = false; boolean isAcceptable = false; 

do {
    System.out.print("Enter a letter:  "); 
    String guessInput = scanner.nextLine(); 
    try { 
      isHit = game.applyGuess(guessInput);              <<--***--- (problem)
      isAcceptable = true;
    } 
    catch (IllegalArgumentException iae){
      System.out.printf("%s. Please try again. %n",
                         iae.getMessage());
    }
} while (! isAcceptable); 
return isHit; 
}

public void displayProgress() { System.out.printf("You have %d tries left to solve: %s%n", game.getRemainingTries(), game.getCurrentProgress()); } }

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

Not sure what video you are on but this one @ 6:13 shows the code also includes:

char guess = guessInput.charAt(0);

and guess is passed to game.applyGuess();